Response to "My Father's Life Ray Carver"

I loved this personal essay. I thought it was a well-told story that wove the child's, Ray Carver Junior's, personal experience together with his father's in a concise and almost unbiased manner. Throughout the text I was thinking that it read almost like an article. As a journalism major I know that one needs to write for newspapers and such based in fact and reports, not subjectively, and this resembled very factual work with short sentences and vivid descriptions. Carver wrote this in a way that made me feel like I was a child when he was child, and I was growing up as he was growing up, etc. His narrative grew less and less clueless as he aged and it resulted in a very accurate representation of getting older as I remember it. I liked the story as a depiction of American life in a difficult socioeconomic situation as well, and think it spoke a truth that would resonate emotionally with many people. It reminded of the non-fiction novel "Evicted" by Matthew Desmond, in that sense, as it accurately depicts impoverished life, however I found this essay is more personable, and easier to relate to.